ANAHEIM – If you want to get a sense of what it’s like for new Angels Jeremy Moore, Efren Navarro, Andrew Romine and the rest of the September call-ups around baseball, consider this story from Angels pitcher Jerome Williams.

When Williams was a minor leaguer coming up in the San Francisco Giants organization, he got a chance to pitch in a major league spring training game. Felix Rodriguez, a Giants reliever, called him Jeremy. Jerome didn’t correct him. So everybody started calling him Jeremy. The entire Giants organization thought his name was pronounced Jeremy.

And, for the first time in his life, Jerome had to answer to Jeremy. For two years.

“I was a young guy! I was scared. I didn’t want to tell an older guy anything,” he said. That’s what it’s like to be a rookie in this game.

“Sometimes you have no control,” he said, “and you can’t do nothing. If I told them they would have yelled at me. I was just a normal young kid being afraid. So I didn’t say nothing for a couple of years.”

There are a couple of theories. One is that Felix Rodriguez was confusing him with Jeriome Robertson, a young pitcher at the same time with the Houston Astros. (Presumably, Jeriome pronounced his name “Jeremy,” or at least Rodriguez thought he did.)

“He had an ‘I’ in it and I didn’t, but they looked the same,” Williams said.

The other theory is that the team thought it was a Hawaiian thing. Williams is Hawaiian.

“But it’s not even Hawaiian,” he said.

Finally, after two years, Williams got up the nerve to talk to pitching coach Dave Righetti.

“Actually, it’s not,” Williams told him. Righetti asked why he had let him call him the wrong name for two years, and he said the same thing that he said Sunday: He was scared.

Nobody on the team mentioned it again. They just started calling him Jerome. Except for Rodriguez, who still calls Williams by the wrong name. Now, for some reason, he calls him Tyrone.

NOTES

Right-hander Jered Weaver won’t start on three days rest this week against Seattle. Instead, Williams will pitch the final game of the series, on Wednesday. Weaver will start Friday against the New York Yankees. Weaver could still pitch on short rest once more this month to get lined up for the final series of the year against the Texas Rangers. …

Trevor Bell was recalled from Triple-A Salt Lake to bolster the bullpen. The Salt Lake Bees end their season Monday. …

Manager Mike Scioscia said Garrett Richards had good stuff and velocity in his rehab appearances in Double-A Saturday. He likely will rejoin the Angels as a reliever early this week.